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Quotes About Schooling

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
~ Jewel Staite
I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.
~ Thomas H. Cook
I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.
~ Aldis Hodge
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me
~ Aravind Adiga
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
~ Simon Newcomb
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
~ Simon van der Meer
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
~ Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
~ Fiona Apple
You went to school, Lee said. I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted to teach you things you didn't care about. Dates and math and trivia about dead presidents. They didn't teach persuasion. Your ability to persuade is the single most important determinant of your quality of life, and they didn't cover that at all. Well, we do. And we're looking for students with natural aptitude.
~ Max Barry
And I'm saying that as someone who was castle-schooled by a woman who thinks the three R's are Rouging, Reddening, and Reapplying.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
changing our educational system so that schooling is not the site where students are indoctrinated to support imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy or any ideology, but rather where they learn to open their minds, to engage in rigorous study and to think critically.
~ bell hooks
It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much.
~ Terry Teachout
But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.
~ Lori Lightfoot
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.
~ Hermione Gingold
One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.
~ Clint Smith
To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck.
~ Susan Sontag
In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.
~ Susan Sontag
The history in my regular schooling was all about progress, a world that brightened with the Enlightenment and steadily improved; a world that would continue to improve illimitably, so long as every country kept trying to be more like America and America kept trying to be more like itself.
~ Joshua Cohen
Cuál es la tarea de todo sistema escolar superior? Hacer del hombre una máquina. ¿Cuál es el medio para ello? El hombre tiene que aburrirse. ¿Cómo se consigue eso? Con el concepto de deber. ¿Quién es su modelo en esto? El filólogo: este enseña a ser un empollón ¿Quién es el hombre perfecto? El funcionario estatal…(
~ Juan Sáez Carreras
I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.
~ Chris Toumazou
It is inevitable that we will need digital technology to re-imagine learning beyond schooling. Even if it is only to inspire people to do more things physically.
~ Rohini Nilekani
After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
~ Rajkummar Rao
I never had much schooling and I don't know that the lack of it hurt me none," Nate said. "I always managed to get by...on my charm and good looks." He smiled. "and my expert pool playing." "You forgot to mention your humble nature." "Modesty prevented it.
~ Brad Smith
nenhum sistema educacional criado pelo homem o impediria de chegar aos livros.
~ Harper Lee